Word: songful
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...critic found "almost overpoweringly impressive." Hindemith's own work, musical settings to four long passages from the books of Matthew and Luke in Latin, evoked several strikingly different moods: the first and fourth motets were highly dramatic and rhythmically complicated; the second had the lyric simplicity of folk song, while the third was reminiscent of an Arab mourning song. They displayed, concluded Die Welt, an entirely "new creative impulse...
White's superb novel. The Once and Future King-"needs work." According to the Globe & Mail's Herbert Whittaker, Camelot-cutting had become the newest Toronto parlor game. "If I followed everybody's advice," said Hart, "Act I would consist of exactly one song...
Betting on considerably more than one song, customers, long before the scheduled, late fall Manhattan opening, have already spent more than $3,000,000 on tickets, the biggest advance sale in Broadway history. Producers L. and L. hesitate to advertise, fearing a further deluge of money. Other troubles beset the Camelot team. In the midst of his cutting and rewriting chores. Alan Jay Lerner went to the hospital with a bleeding ulcer,* and Director Hart learned of the death of his 97-year-old father in Miami, retired to his hotel room for three days with nervous fatigue...
...rate actors, and its approach to satire of 20th century life is by way of the Stone Age. Fred and Wilma Flintstone live in a split-level cave. His shaver is a clamshell with a bee in it. Everybody wears skins. When the neighbors collect for an evening of song, Fred picks out the tunes on the Stoneway...
Last Friday night Joan Baez and Eric von Schmidt sang folk songs in Agassiz Theater, under the aegis of the Harvard Liberal Union. Young Liberals hoping to hear even one "song of social protest" were disappointed, for the program was arranged under the widely-held and peculiar assumption that everything sung by a folk singer (even essentially conservative songs like many of the ones Miss Baez sings) partake in some way of the yeasty liberal mythos...